Lots of the complexity in a WYSIWYG-Editor comes from the user being able to select stuff and change appearance of the content in the selection, while the text itself doesn't change for the user. Also there's adding tables, inline-images, links etc.
In a code-editor, you don't set certain texts to bold or red. If it appears like that it's because of syntax-highlighting and/or markdown. The editor just needs to parse the entered text.
Imagine Sublime-Text vs. MS-Word.
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Because Code-Editors are fundamentally not rich-text-editors.
Can you unpack that? It's obviously trivial for an editor like vscode to display bold or italic or listed items.
Lots of the complexity in a WYSIWYG-Editor comes from the user being able to select stuff and change appearance of the content in the selection, while the text itself doesn't change for the user. Also there's adding tables, inline-images, links etc.
In a code-editor, you don't set certain texts to bold or red. If it appears like that it's because of syntax-highlighting and/or markdown. The editor just needs to parse the entered text.
Imagine Sublime-Text vs. MS-Word.